Community Building

Healing: A Community Project By Wendy Coy

"We share major life events in community. We dance together at weddings, grieve together at funerals, exchange presents at Christmas, worship together on Sundays, and eat together whenever our busy lives permit. Even the service of communion is shared together."
"Bought into a Lie":More Than Just a Collection of Individuals By Phil Rankin

In Northern Ireland one group wants to become part of the Republic of Ireland while the other group wants to remain part of the United Kingdom. There has been and continues to be no compromise on this issue, and this is the same the world over: People want different things and always will.
... That All May Be One By Steven Case

"In the Ben & Jerry's community you can have a cape and heat vision and a spring-loaded gizmo that shoots a plastic dart and still be welcomed."
Blink and You'll Miss It: Participating In What God is Doing By Mike Perschon

"You don't have to move to another town, small or large, to find authentic community. There's a good chance you don't even have to switch churches to find it. My guess is we've all beenblinking and missing it. Let's open our eyes to what God wants to do in us and through us with the people right in front of us."
Building a Community Bridge across the World: The God-Engineered Link between Chicago and Zambia By Chip Huber

"Together we can build the bridge of community between God's people to the world, even a world threatened by both an American culture that sometimes seemingly is devoid of God's character and an African world staring down the greatest humanitarian crisis of our generation."
Community in Crisis By Jonathan Martin

Yet there remains no one-size-fits-all formula for building community, because the magic and mystery of it isn't something we can conjure.
Doing Life (and Ministry) Alone: When Community is Ripped Away By Amy Jacober

"If you've found yourself in this place of questioning your call, of questioning the very core of your beliefs out of a longing for community and finding that it's simply not as automatic as you'd like, you're not alone. It's one of the dirty little secrets in ministry often not discussed. Oh, take heart... you're not alone."
Intentional Community: As Seen through the Eyes of Three Friends By Mindi Godfrey, Beth Slevcove, and Jeannie Oestreicher

"Community involves being in authentic and purposeful relationship with others." These friends discuss several overlapping intentional communities they're in, illuminating the benefits, struggles, joys, and pains of true intimacy with God and one another in true Christian community.
Mission Impossible?: Why 'Community' Doesn't Work in Youth Ministry By Murray Brown

"Despite what the sociologists may tell us, 'community' isn't high on the list of needs drawn up by our average student-at least, not community as youth ministry commonly understands it and approaches it. But community can work and in fact must work if we're to do effective ministry."
Student-Led Cell Groups: Nothing Short of a Revolution By Ted M. Stump

There is a dynamic, life-changing movement among teens that's impacting the very foundation of youth ministries all over the world: Kids reaching their friends for Christ through student-led cell groups.
The Anatomy of Community, And Three Disorders That Cripple Its Life By Tom Lytle

Some youth groups require spiritual chiropractic in order to realign aching members of the body.
The Fellowship of Sinners: Finding Community in Christ By Graham David Stanton

"Finding true community isn't about abolishing sin, and true community isn't the goal that waits just around the corner following the success of our latest ministry plans. True community exists in sharing a relationship of forgiveness and new life in Jesus."
Virtual Community: The New Frontier By Renee Altson

"Creating online community is a lot easier than you might think. As you venture into cyberspace, you'll discover new things about your students, about yourself, and about our culture."